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Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Read by Lynne Carroll

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for hers…

Chapter 16 - Pioneer life in Kansas—our newspaper "The Revolution"

In Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…

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In A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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James E. Seaver

Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them …

14 - Vegetable Marrow

In The Family Kitchen Gardener

Read by Lynne Carroll

Robert Buist

The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically Am…